The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE latest fad in Michigan is TO wear small
thermometer for breastpin.


| In California surplus apricots are to be made
into wine Experiment shows that they MAKE
richly favored wine, clear and ederVesceht aS
the best champagne.
THE height of the cathedral now building at
Little Rock, Ark, viii be 231 feet to the top OF
the spire overlapping the Bunker Hill monu-
ment by eleven feet.
MRS A. CARRIER, of Duplaines, Mich, has
achieved notoriety by climbing tree and h ll
ing q refractory swarm of bees. 1t seems AAe
tough story. but the bees dlun sung heF.
SOME mischievous boys at Temple, Tex, paint
ed a sharp-horned cows horn red and hung an
old hat on it, which created sensation in that
part of the city until all the kids were hunted
up by their mothers.
A JAMAICA negro who lately arrived at San
Francisco is seven feet five inches high, and the
development of his body is in proportion to his
height, He is said to be spelling for a hight,
and to have whipped all who stood before nm
in Calcutta.
PONY owned by w. II. Ellis, of Blooming
ton, n Y, carries the children to school in the
morning, trots home all by itself, is hitched up
in the afternoon and started of to School,
where it waits until school is dismissed, when IL
takes the children home,
AT the farm of Griffith Bros in the town of
Mount Pleasant, Wis, the hub of heavily
| laden lumber wagon struck gate post, and the
IflcLlOn was SO great IL SET ilIc u EJpo'-
! The gate was burned up, and also grass Tor sew
| eral yards in the locality.
| IT is generally supposed that the honor OF
knighthood is eagerly sought after, bat it is
| said that more than one Canadian has been COM
| PEELED to accept knighthood through the pres
| sure of the female members OF his family
| Similar honorS are frequently declined In Eng
| land.
THE Concord, (Cal) Sun says: They tell a
Of of he i'm
western portion of the Contra Costa county,
| whose daughter recently asked him what he
| meant to give her for birthday present. He
| was just DOING but he grunted out: Ten dol
| l2rS or ten days"
A WOODLAND CALI WIDOW, age 65, insists upon
marrying a young and good-looling Canadian,
| age 49, She is worth 100000 He drinks
| Woodland is scandalized. The young man has
| been arrested charged with felony" 1t is sup
posed that the crime he is guilty of is stealing
| woman" The latest dispatches from Wood
| land state, great excitement prevails In this
| city"
THE first elephant on exhibition in New Eng
land, and said to have been the first in the Uni
ted States was killed at Alfred, Me, in the year
1917, about one mile west from the village. in
piece of woods near the Round pond, so called
on the old park road leading to Dover. n. II. 1t
is said several citizens have in contemplation
the erection of a monument or tablet on the
spot where he was killed
MAN weighing 154 pounds contains 81 pounds
of oxygen, the volume of which, at ordinary
temperature, would exceed $50 cubic feet. The
hydrogen is much less in quantity, there being
less than fifteen pounds but which, in a free
state would occupy volume of 800 cubic feet
| The three other gases are nitrogen, nearly four
pounds, chlorine, about twenty-SiX ounces and
huorlne three and quarter ounces
JASPER Caller has at bis Novelty Cottage near
| Fabyan's one of the rareSt animals ever seen in
| the White Mountains. 1t is white porcupine.
| 1t is said to be uncommon a creature as a
| white blackbird, and Mr.. Caller says he never
| heard of but one other. This is large speci-
| men, weighing probably twenty five pounds
1t is entirely white, and is docile ard intelligent
| so tame as to eat from its masters hand The
owner has refused large offers for him.
THE latest Austrian army regulations provide
that of the officers of the general staff and of
| certain branches of the commissarat one half
may marry; of the other army officers three
| fourthS must remain bachelors. Any Lieutenant
| or Captain. in order to obtain permission to
marry at al, must prove himself possessed of
an income, other than his salary, of coo FORMS
and a staff officer of 800 forms. To these fig
ures must be added so per cent in case of off
GERS under 80 years of age.
Tom PARRATT ran into Lou Coulter during
game of ball in Portland, Ore, and smashed his
nose. Coulter suffered for several days and
then went with his club out of town. At Seattle
r..
and the latter, while dreaming of pitching
threw out one arm and struck Coulter a very
hard Glow on the sore nose. Coulter was rem
dered unconscious and remained so for several
hours He will have to have an operation per
formed on the unfortunate organ.
THE biggest bell in the world has been hung
in Cologne Cathedral, and christened ''Glori-
osa" by the Archbishop with great ceremony
This ''kaiserglocke'' (Emperor's beln is Emper-
or Williams gift, and is cast from twenty two
French cannon captured in the Franco Prussian
war. 1t bears the German arms and two in
ScriptionS. One, in Latin, expresses the Emper-
or's gratitude for the divine mercy in granting
him victory: the other in German declares, II
am the Emperor S bell. and | proclaim his
glory. fill sacred post and pray heaven to
grant peace and prosperity to the German EN-
pire.
TAE lively Dakota Bell is responsible for
bringing out this picture of Western life: THE
wedding of Frank Moxie and Miss Duckie Birch
err" says one of the Belts Territorial exchanges
which we announced last Week. has not vet
taken place, owing to the fact that the
groom is too busily engaged in poker game at
the Silver Star club rooms. The Rev. Harris
horn, who was to perform the ceremony and
who went to inform Mr. Moxie that the com-
pany was waiting also got interested and took
q hand. AS we go to press we learn that the
reverend gentleman is kicking like an elephant
because there Is a limit 10 the game"
LORD CHARLES BEREsFoRD, whose undignifed
conduct at the Jubilee review of the British
Navy has caused much comment, has a
knack of getting himself into trouble through
breaches of discipline. During the Egyptian
war Of 1882 ne appeared in Lord WoIseley's
camp, near lSmalia, and as there were strict
orders that officers on half pay should be
permitted to accompany the troops on active
service, Lord Charles was ordered to leave the
camp. He went back to lsmalia and tee-
graphed to Gordon Bennett. ia Paris offering
his services special correspondent for the
Herald The General was furious and refused
absolutely to let him accompany the troops.
THE Milan Crenn) Exchange says: On last
Saturday evening, at about shutdown. on the
Sterling Johnson place, two and a half miles
southeast of Milan, six ANGELS were seen to fy
down into the yard of Mrs. Wood, widow
1t seems that Mrs. Wood was very low with
sickness, aud several ladies' were present at
tending to the wants OF the SICK when a noise in
the yard attracted Their attention. Unon look.
ing out of the window they saw an angel and
in a moment more It was joined by five. others
They were there only for few minutes and
took their flight, flying straight up until lest TO
view. They, with the exception Of wings. were
in the form and shape OF man, with clear-cut
and finely formed features. and were clothed in
garments of pure and spotless white while a
halo of heaVeniy-ligat eneirrled thef. heads
The above was told 70 US as the truth and can
be vouched for by the ladies' who were in attend
ance upon Mrs Wood BE that as Il NAV. II has
created considerable excitement in that neigh